The newly identified Megachile lucifer highlights conservation concerns as it was found in mining-vulnerable habitat ...

Kit Prendergast discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower and was drawn to the insect's unique ...

“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

A new, devil-horned bee has been identified in Australia.

The devil is in the tiny details. A team of scientists discovered a new bee species they affectionately nicknamed “Lucifer” ...

Solitary bee species are major pollinators of wild plants, and there are over 1,500 species in the Megachile genus alone.

The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian ...

The female bee's upward-pointing horns could be used to access flowers, compete for resources, and defend nests, researchers ...

The "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia. DNA testing ...